The video captures a simple yet strangely satisfying moment as blue gym chalk is gently crushed. This ASMR (Autonomous ...

For Spirit Payton, the 47-year-old “ASMR artist” behind the YouTube channel ASMRTheChew, the sounds of someone eating are some of the most beautiful in the world. “A person naturally eating is making ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Some of these videos were intentionally made as ASMR triggers — others, like episodes from Bob Ross’ The Joy of ...

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Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) occurs when certain stimuli, including sounds, visuals, or close contact with another person, produce tingling or calm feelings and sensations. Share on ...

ASMR videos - which claim to induce a tingling feeling in the viewer - have quietly become an internet phenomenon. When I was a child I sometimes experienced a pleasant physical sensation in my scalp ...

Michael MacIntyre, MD, is a board-certified general and forensic psychiatrist practicing general psychiatry at the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in Los Angeles. ASMR is a sensation in which ...

The shushing sound of voices whispering, or clothes rustling—and then a tingling feeling begins on the scalp, and spreads down into the neck, shoulders, and limbs, and along with it comes a state of ...

The euphoric-but-relaxing responses to soothing visuals and quirky, textural sounds has spawned an online wellbeing phenomenon. But what is ASMR—and why do only some people feel it? Increasingly, ...